Secure SMTP/POP for gmail

johnnywang has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi, I just recently switched to gmail since they provide free POP3 accounts, furthermore, it's secure over SSL, so I can do my private emails at ease during work time:-) Is there a module for SMTP/POP3 over SSL that can handle this? the standard Net::POP3 doesn't handle secure email, I guess I need to hook SSL into it somehow. Thanks.

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Re: Secure SMTP/POP for gmail
by Fletch (Bishop) on Jul 20, 2005 at 21:18 UTC

Simplest thing to do would be to use stunnel to setup a tunnel to the secure gmail servers and make your stuff connect to the local end of that.

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Re: Secure SMTP/POP for gmail
by Tanktalus (Canon) on Jul 20, 2005 at 21:21 UTC

I'm wondering if this would work. Warning: I couldn't get much farther away from "tested code" while still writing some code.

package Net::SMTP::SSL;

use base 'Net::SMTP';
require IO::Socket::SSL;

@Net::SMTP::ISA = map {
  s/(IO::Socket::)INET/${1}SSL/;
} @Net::SMTP::ISA;
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Just curious. ;-)

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Re: Secure SMTP/POP for gmail
by chanio (Priest) on Jul 21, 2005 at 18:15 UTC

PopFile

I saw this at CPAN's perl scripts: gmailarchiver that could help you to send your local emails to gmail. I haven't read it.